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From: alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re^2: The IIfx: a hands-on first look (floppies?)
Message-ID: <1990Apr10.164756.341@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Date: 10 Apr 90 16:47:56 GMT
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ac08@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:

>In article <1990Apr5.080910.9023@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>, alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) writes:
>> Oh, I forgot to mention: the floppy connectors now have swingover
>> tie-clamps to keep them from working loose.  (And the FDHD on this
>> machine seems in much better shape than the one in the IIx was.)
>> 
>> 	Alex

>Floppy connectors?

>What sort of connector do you use on a floppy disk, anyway?

The ones that hold down the 20-pin cable to the motherboard.  Or did you
think that floppy disks get away if they're not tied down ("he'd muscle
up to those bars, and voom!")

	Alex